Cost of easy credit: a 70% rise in arrears
The amount of debt being chased by Britain's bailiffs has soared by 70% over the past two years to a record £5bn in fresh evidence of Britain's growing debt crisis. ...
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Watchdog to investigate Betsy salary
Iain Duncan Smith will be investigated over the payment of a secretarial salary to his wife, Betsy, the parliamentary watchdog announced tonight.
Sir Philip Mawer, the p...
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Would you credit it? The fiasco goes on
Six months after the government started tax credit payments, many claimants remain out of pocket and angry at their treatment.
Ministers have declared the system is run...
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Whistleblower to face tribunal
A Green councillor who blew the whistle on a secret council deal to give a rates holiday to British Energy is to face a tribunal at which she will be charged with breachi...
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Can you be arrested for failing to pay your debts?
Q Can you be arrested if you do not attempt to call your creditors back, or are unable to pay your credit card bills now, but plan to later without claiming bankruptcy?
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House broker turns on RSA
Another day and another heavy session of trading in the shares of troubled insurance company Royal & SunAlliance, off 0.5p at 86.25p on volume of 90m shares.
Apart ...
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Insurers' haggling is just not cricket
Our private health insurance with Bupa ended on 1 July when we switched to Exeter Friendly Society, where we were insured from 27 June. On 25 June, my son was hit on the ...
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Are you a winner in the supermarket sweep?
Tesco this week revealed that it has sold 1m car insurance policies. Meanwhile, Sainsbury's has opened 600,000 new accounts at its banking division over the past year and...
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Consumers make ready for anti-fraud credit cards
At least half of all cardholders are likely to have a new-style 'chip and Pin' credit or debit card by spring next year, with one in five expected to have one by Christma...
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Quattrone 'tried to block inquiry
Frank Quattrone, once a high-flying executive at Credit Suisse First Boston, was yesterday described as a "powerful and successful Wall Street investment banker who tried...
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